"Quick, close the cannon window!" Standing on the boat, Shen Yourong roared, full of energy, completely without the weakness that an elderly person should have. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Most generals are like this, you let him fight on the battlefield all the time, and he is alive and well, but once you let him leave the army and return to the field, within a few years, he will immediately get sick and die, Qi Jiguang is like this, Yu Dayou is like this, and Shen Yourong in history is also like this.

But now Shen Yourong can be chic, now starting from Shanghai Port, along the sea route, along the monsoon, smoothly to Annan.

Some of the remaining pirates in the sea of Guangdong did not dare to come up to beg for a living when they saw such a huge fleet, and they all fled in despair, and even some fishing boats stopped their boats and respectfully leaned to the side, waiting for the passage of the army. This kind of majestic appearance made Shen Yourong feel uneasy, which he did not have in the past when he commanded those tattered water masters.

It is indeed a tattered sailor, those sailors in the past, their ships and personnel, even pirates are not comparable, leading them, Shen Yourong only felt a burst of shame, where will there be a large army to go out to attack the glory of his country.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and not long after walking, there were storms and waves on the sea. To say that the sea is three feet high without wind and waves, some wind and waves are normal. But at that time he was experimenting with cannon salvos to see what the improvements looked like.

It turned out to be a tragedy, the rising waves poured directly from the bottom of the gun, wetting the gunpowder cannon, not to mention the cannon, and almost sinking the ship. If he hadn't reacted in time, there would have been battle damage before he reached Annan.

"It seems that it is not unrelated that the gunboat was positioned on two floors in the first place." Shen Yourong pondered. Fortunately, this situation occurred only with battleships, and cruisers were in good condition, and even more stable because of the adjustment of the center.

"It's just that if there are no three decks, then so many cannons can't be placed on the ship at all, which will greatly affect the stability of the battleship, but if you remove some cannons, it is estimated that only ...... will remain. Seventy to eighty doors! Thinking of this, Shen Yourong sighed, if this is the case, then what is the difference between this battleship and a cruiser, and its speed is not as fast as that of a cruiser.

Soon, however, he came up with the idea of raising the muzzle of the cannon at the bottom, so that as long as it was not a strong wind and waves, there would be no backing of seawater.

But this will have to adjust the distance between the lower decks, and it must not be evenly distributed with each other as it is now. Of course, the easiest way is to enlarge the battleship a little more, so that many of them will become larger.

"Hehe, if the time comes, take out that treasure ship and use it as a warship.........." Thinking about such a huge ship appearing at sea, Shen Yourong smirked.

"General, the water has been taken care of, and the gun windows have been closed." Just as he was smirking, the herald came to report.

"General Ben knows, go down." Shen Yourong restrained his smile, waved off the herald, and entered his room and began to check some information about Annan.

The emperor just gave him an order to go south to buy grain, as for where to buy it, the emperor didn't say, let him decide for himself. Therefore, Shen Yourong, the big boss, had to look at the information by himself.

Fortunately, this time his navy also assigned a lot of young Jinshi to raise staff officers, not to mention their level of strategy, but at least these paperwork can be handled properly. Of course, these are only political information, and the specific local grain production can only be known at the local level.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor overthrew the Chen Dynasty and set up the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, but the local resistance was very fierce, in a place called the Li Li people kept resisting, and finally drove out the Ming army and established the Annan Kingdom, and this is the Li Dynasty.

Later, the Li Dynasty was mixed with the lords, and it was unbearable, and then there were people in the country who rebelled, and finally, a fisherman of the Ming Dynasty won and occupied the country of Annan, known as the Mo Dynasty.

At that time, there were still many opposition forces, and in the end, these opposition forces gathered under the command of the Li Dynasty general Nguyen Gan and began to rebel against the Mo Dynasty.

Hou Lê and Mo fought with each other, Hou Lê had the upper hand, and among them, Nguyen and his son-in-law Zheng took turns to hold power and fight each other, Nguyen was defeated, fled to the south, occupied Hue and Quang Nam, and established their own separatist forces. Then, Zheng sent troops to defeat Mo and drove him to Gaoping, where Mo was stationed.

The entire later generations of Vietnam have been divided into several chassis at this time, including Cao Ping Mo, which borders the Ming Dynasty, Hou Li, who occupies Annam, and the Zheng clan holds the power to support the Lê clan, and the Nguyen clan, which occupies Quang Nam and claims to be the main one. Further south, there was the Champa divided into three states.

This is the situation in Vietnam today, of course, there is also a separatist force, the Vu clan who occupy Tuyen Quang Town, because of the terrain, they occupy a place, and they are surrounded by the Kingdom of Annam.

Nominally, except for the Mo dynasty in Cao Bang and the southernmost Champa Trinity, the whole of Vietnam was nominally unified and still dominated by the Lê clan.

It's just that Vietnam at this time was not a subject country, but was downgraded to a dependent territory. This also starts with Mo's, who occupied the post of political envoy, and the country name at that time was Annan.

The Ming Dynasty responded to the request of the Li Dynasty and sent troops to attack the Mo clan, and the Mo clan was forced to surrender in a letter, and surrendered to the subject country as a dependent territory, and the Jiajing Emperor was overjoyed, and then canonized him as the commander of the capital of Annam. And this title was used until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not until the Southern Ming Dynasty that the title of King of Annam was restored. And the Nguyen clan, who only occupies the land of Hue Quang Nam, has never had a name, but only calls himself the lord of Nguyen.

Of course, this region also has a name, called Quang Nam Kingdom, but it is given by outsiders, after all, there must always be a title after the partition.

"It's a complicated relationship." Looking at the information in front of him, Shen Yourong frowned bitterly, this small piece of chassis is as complex and changeable as it may be, not as big as Guangxi, but it is chaotic, three or four separatist regimes at once, as well as internal power struggles, it is really a headache.

(The author also has a headache when I check the information, and I wrote for two hours, and I only wrote less than 2,000 words, which is hard.) ）

In addition, there are complex information about several other countries on the entire peninsula, which really makes Shen Yourong feel sad. Therefore, after reading Annan's information in a hurry, he put it down, took the advice of one of the staff officers, and after stopping in Guangzhou, bypassed Hainan and went directly to the port of Fifford, where was Portugal, oh, a port established by the little Franco.

"Wait, in that case, is that going to Macau?" Shen Yourong touched his chin and thought, the two places were established by people from the same country, so it's okay to find a referrer yourself.

Guangdong Province.

Now that all the provinces have been reformed into provinces, the political envoys of Chengxuan have been abolished, and governors have been appointed, and Guangdong is naturally no exception, with its own governors. Of course, today's protagonist is not him, but Hong Chengchou, who came to the port of Guangzhou to set up customs.

Very Sun Chuanting can happily carry out business is different, Hong Chengchou's actions can be described as difficult, the local local scholars, officials, Western barbarians, there is no one who is easy to get along, for a few months, let alone collect taxes, even the office of Guangzhou Customs has been difficult to establish.

Not only Hong Chengchou himself, but even the Jinshi who came with him were all depressed. Tianjin is close to Gyeonggi and is in the emperor's eye, and Sun Chuanting of Shanghai Port has the help of Lu Xiangsheng, the magistrate of the county, and Qin Bangping, the general of Jiangsu's city defense, and the business of the two can be carried out smoothly.

But Hong Chengchou is different, Guangdong is located in the southernmost part of the empire, the sea in the south, the back of the mountains, the terrain is rugged, there are many waters, the Lingnan Mountains have made this place even more closed, so it is also very xenophobic.

Coupled with the complex interests of various smugglings, he was able to successfully establish a business without a single soldier. This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao sent him here, to embarrass this big traitor in history.

If he is talented and can break the predicament, it is naturally good, if not, it doesn't matter, when Zhu Youxiao's eyes are on this side, it will naturally be solved. Of course, in fact, the most important thing is that the navy has not been here, and has not established a military port here, otherwise with the support of the navy's strong armed forces, any obstruction will be false.

The reason why interests are in the dark is because they can't see the light of day.

Hong Chengchou himself didn't know this, after he came here, he got the station of Guangzhou Customs, and began to collect information and understand everything in the local area.

Guangzhou Port is located in the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, the same belongs to the estuary of the Pearl River, starting from the Pearl River estuary in Nansha District, along the river channel gradually to the inside distribution, here the river is clear and sandy, the water depth is wide, the ocean is vast, and it is very calm, so it has become an excellent port, in later generations, Guangzhou Port is the fourth largest port in China.

The emperor sent him here to establish a customs office just to collect taxes and money, and after setting this goal, Hong Chengchou quickly locked on what he wanted to care about, that is, maritime trade. At that time, maritime trade was still a shady thing, so it was naturally carried out in secret.

It's just that this can't be difficult for him, as a two-list jinshi, he naturally has his own classmates, Guangdong is no exception, after some twists and turns, he roughly straightened out the relationship here, and then looked at Macau in the south and Fei Fu Port overseas.

Macau and Hong Kong, the two most famous special regions in later generations, but in this era, Macau was still a Portuguese gathering place, under the jurisdiction of the governor of Guangdong, as for Hong Kong, it was even more nonsense, at this time it was still a small fishing village, only fishermen's activities on it.

If Hong Kong was a piece of land that Portugal had acquired for trade with China, then the port of Fiefford in Quang Nam was a port of intersection like Manila.

It's just that the two belong to different countries and explore the resources of different provinces in the Central Plains.